Subject: Re: Next Hackathon this weekend: getting ready to re-branch for 4.0
To: Geert Hendrickx , Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 11/25/2006 20:08:46
On Apr 17,  7:33am, John Nemeth wrote:
} On Apr 17,  8:44am, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
} } On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:51:05AM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
} } > haad writes:
} } > > Can we generate install iso images for all architectures for current
} } > > before hackatton starts?
} } > > It's easier to test install procedure if I only need to download install
} } > > iso image and I don't need to build iso image myself.
} } > 
} } > I think this is a great idea.  I don't know if "all" architectures is
} } > achievable with this short notice, but I'd think iso's for the "mainstream"
} } > arches should be doable... (with the others added as time permits...)
} } 
} } I created ISO's for alpha, amd64, i386 and sparc for the 200611240000Z build,
} } available from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200611240000Z/iso/
} } (there were no binaries for macppc and sparc64, otherwise I'd have built ISO's
} } for them as well).
} 
}      I have a sparc64 build done on my dev box that completed last
} night.  I could create an ISO and upload it.  However, my build was
} done with USE_SSP=yes and as of this moment is untested (I am running
} with a kernel with USE_SSP=yes).

     I am now running with this image, so it has minimal testing.  I
uploaded it to ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jnemeth/ .

}-- End of excerpt from John Nemeth